Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators. On the other hand, human groups have produced ingenious technologies, sophisticated languages, and complex institutions that have permitted us to successfully expand into a vast range of diverse environments. What has enabled us to dominate the globe, more than any other species, while remaining virtually helpless as lone individuals? This book shows that the secret of our success lies not in our innate intelligence, but in our collective brains--on the ability of human groups to socially interconnect and learn from one another over generations.
Drawing insights from lost European explorers, clever chimpanzees, mobile hunter-gatherers, neuroscientific findings, ancient bones, and the human genome, Joseph Henrich demonstrates how our collective brains have propelled our species' genetic evolution and shaped our biology. Our early capacities for learning from others produced many cultural innovations, such as fire, cooking, water containers, plant knowledge, and projectile weapons, which in turn drove the expansion of our brains and altered our physiology, anatomy, and psychology in crucial ways. Later on, some collective brains generated and recombined powerful concepts, such as the lever, wheel, screw, and writing, while also creating the institutions that continue to alter our motivations and perceptions. Henrich shows how our genetics and biology are inextricably interwoven with cultural evolution, and how culture-gene interactions launched our species on an extraordinary evolutionary trajectory.
Tracking clues from our ancient past to the present, The Secret of Our Success explores how the evolution of both our cultural and social natures produce a collective intelligence that explains both our species' immense success and the origins of human uniqueness.
Автор: Bloxham, Donald (richard Pares Professor Of History, Richard Pares Professor Of History, University Of Edinburgh) Название: History and morality ISBN: 019885871X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198858713 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 8223.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Should historians make value judgements about the past? Many historians think not, but Donald Bloxham contends that it is legitimate, often unavoidable, and frequently important. History and Morality illuminates how far tacit moral judgements infuse works of history, and how strange those histories would look if the judgements were removed.
Автор: Richards, Evelleen Название: Ideology and Evolution in Nineteenth Century Britain ISBN: 1138607711 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138607712 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 23734.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Collected together for the first time, these richly detailed contextual studies by a leading historian of science examine the diverse ways in which cultural values and political and professional considerations impinged upon the construction, acceptance and applications of nineteenth century evolutionary theory.
Автор: Rossano, Matt Название: Ritual in Human Evolution and Religion ISBN: 0367856913 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367856915 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 23734.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book explores the role of ritual in social life, human evolution, and religion. It explains the functions and purpose of varied rituals across the world by arguing they are mechanisms of `resource management`, providing a descriptive tool for understanding rituals and generating predictions about ritual survival.
Автор: Dror, Yehezkel Название: Steering Human Evolution ISBN: 0367505932 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367505936 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6889.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Being both interdisciplinary and based on personal experience of the author, this book adds up to a novel paradigm on steering human evolution. It will be of great interest to scholars of modern history, evolution sciences, future studies, political sciences, philosophy of action, and science, and technology and the general reader.
Автор: Oliver James, Asmus Leth Olsen, Donald Moynihan, G Название: Behavioral Public Performance: How People Make Sense of Government Metrics ISBN: 1108708072 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108708074 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 2851.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This Element introduces a new approach in the measurement and reporting of government performance - behavioral public performance. Drawing especially on evidence from experiments, this approach examines the influence of characteristics of numbers, subtle framing of information, choice of benchmarks or comparisons, and information sources.
Описание: The essential guide to conducting successful primatological research. Specifically designed for graduate students and post-doctoral researchers, it explains how to think scientifically, develop a research question, formulate testable hypotheses and predictions, design and conduct a project, and report the results.
Автор: Brent Berlin and Paul Kay Название: Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution ISBN: 1575861623 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781575861623 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 3564.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Explores the psychophysical and neurophysical determinants of cross-linguistic constraints on the shape of colour lexicons.
Автор: Lagerspetz, Olli Название: Evolution, Human Behaviour and Morality ISBN: 0367596156 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367596156 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6889.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: K. A. I. Nekaris, Anne M. Burrows Название: Evolution, Ecology and Conservation of Lorises and Pottos ISBN: 1108429025 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108429023 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 14573.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book introduces students and researchers to the morphology, anatomy, taxonomy, ecology and conservation of lorisid primates, a group more well-known from videos on social media than their behaviour in the wild and by their unique evolutionary adaptations. A must-have on any primatology, biological anthropology or conservation reading list.
Автор: Thompson R. Paul Название: Evolution, Morality and the Fabric of Society ISBN: 1009244914 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781009244916 Издательство: Cambridge University Press Рейтинг: Цена: 16817.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Derives and justifies moral principles, naturalistically, from evolved human behavioural propensities (reciprocity, cooperation, empathy) and cognitive capacities (rationality, behavioural modification).
Автор: Thompson, R. Paul (university Of Toronto) Название: Evolution, morality and the fabric of society ISBN: 1108741703 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108741705 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 2851.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Derives and justifies moral principles, naturalistically, from evolved human behavioural propensities (reciprocity, cooperation, empathy) and cognitive capacities (rationality, behavioural modification).
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